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Loading... The Origins of Totalitarianism (original 1951; edition 1973)by Hannah Arendt
Work InformationThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951)
   No current Talk conversations about this book. I can only dream that I could write as well as Arendt. (  ) jcvogan1 | Mar 23, 2023 |  the first two volumes have a host of problematic issues that make them difficult to consult or reference without quite a lot of filtering and external qualification. they make many arguments that r either dubious or unoriginal (or both) the third volume, while somewhat flawed in various ways, is an essential masterpiece (  ) sashame | Dec 7, 2022 | This is a combination of three volumes, on respectively Antisemitism, Imperialism, and Totalitarianism. Obviously being one of the iconic books by an iconic writer of the twentieth century, it demands respectful attention. Unfortunately the style is very dense and mystifying, many of the sentences do not impart any sense on the first reading, the paragraphs go on without much structure or logical flow, there are huge footnotes in tiny print on most pages, there is an overload of references showcasing the author's erudition more than anything else, and the arguments or theoretical constructs are not always convincing. A very difficult book to read, probably requiring other, more modern, studies to achieve any understanding of these complex social-political processes and phenomena in a form that will be relevant to our current situations. (  ) Dilip-Kumar | Aug 22, 2022 | Klassík. Umfjöllun Arendt um mótun, eðli og hugmyndafræði einræðisstjórna er grundvallarrit fyrir alla sem hafa áhuga á að kynna sér þversagnir einræðisríkja. Hvers vegna t.d. stjórnir Þýskalands og Sovétríkjanna hófu miskunnarlausa eyðingu margra hópa í eigin samfélagi sem olli þeim um leið ómældu efnahagslegu tjóni. Arendt rekur lógík einræðisríkjanna fyrir ofsóknum, skrefin sem tekin voru til að öðlast alræðisvald og hvernig valdaelítan varð svo öflug. (  ) SkuliSael | Apr 28, 2022 | ترسُّخ الشمولية في المجتمع هو مؤشر إلى ابتعاد الناس عن الفكر التحليلي والسياسي. الشيء الوحيد المهم داخل المجتمع الشمولي هو رؤية القائد للمستقبل. وإذا ما تم تقديم دليل واقعي لدحض تلك الرؤية أو طرح بديل قابل للتطبيق، فإنه دائماً ما يُلوى ليظهر كمحاولة من قبل العدو هدفها تضليل الجماهير. لا يسيطر الجماهير الخاضعون للأيديولوجيا الشمولية على حياتهم، بل يتصرفون في الواقع بإرادة القائد. وهذا هو السبب في استحالة إجراء مناقشة معقولة وطرح أسئلة منطقية على أحد هذه الجموع، لأن ذلك يتطلب التفكير الحر والتحليل المنطقي. وعندما يتخلى الناس عن حقوقهم ومسؤولياتهم في اتخاذ قرارات واعية مستنيرة يصبحون غير قادرين أو غير راغبين في النظر إلى أفعالهم بعين الناقد وتقييم الأمور على حقيقتها. يعتبر الكثيرون هذا الكتاب أهم أعمال المؤلفة، الذي تتتبّع فيه جذور معاداة السامية وأصول الإمبريالية وصولاً للشمولية المعاصرة في أوروبا. بدءاً من صعود الدول القومية الأوروبية في القرن السابع عشر، تكشف أرندت عن الأدوات التي مكنت النازية والستالينية في أوائل القرن العشرين من تثبيت دعائمهما وإقصاء الديمقراطية وتغييب الفكر الحر. بالإضافة للوسائل الممكنة لتجنب قيام شموليات مشابهة مستقبلاً. ( ) TonyDib | Jan 28, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
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"How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times, even if they are different and perhaps less dark, and "Origins" raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can arise and the dangerous forms of inhumanity to which it can lead." Jeffrey C. Isaac, The Washington Post Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time--Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia--which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination. No library descriptions found. |
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